On Fre, 2010-10-01 at 12:36 +0200, Sven Joachim wrote: > Am 01.10.2010 um 12:19 schrieb Alexander Heinlein: > > > Another thing that bothers me with the new kernels is that I have to enable > > KMS to use the intel driver, but disable it if I want to use vesa (the > > current fallback for me). Changing the bootloader configuration and > > rebooting just to switch the graphics driver doesn't seem right. > > You can use fbdev instead of vesa as fallback, it works fine with KMS > (but does not do any mode setting, so you can't change the resolution).
FYI, the X fbdev driver can switch modes just fine, any problems with that are more likely due to the KMS support in the kernel. -- Earthling Michel Dänzer | http://www.vmware.com Libre software enthusiast | Debian, X and DRI developer -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
